Family and friends are grieving the deaths of a St. Anthony father and two of his children following a head-on crash near Lindstrom, Minn.

Bart Hazlett, 52, was driving three of his children to a relative’s graduation party Friday evening when a minivan struck and killed him and two of the children – Olivia Ray Hazlett, 11, and Roan Huy Hazlett, 9.

The third child, Zoe Felix Hazlett, 15, was taken to Regions Hospital in St. Paul and later transferred to Gillette Children’s Specialty Health Care. She was listed in fair condition Saturday.

Hazlett’s wife and other child, Jude, 12, were waiting at the party for the rest of the family to arrive, according to Hazlett’s twin brother, Brett, 52, of St. Paul.

Bart Hazlett, or “Buck,” as family and friends called him, loved food, music and his children, his brother said. The Hopkins native grew up in a family of seven.

“He was just a wonderful man who loved his children and people,” Brett Hazlett said. He added that Bart was a good drummer who played in a local band for several years.

The brothers co-owned Maverick’s Real Roast Beef restaurant in Roseville. Despite owning the business, Bart Hazlett was home-schooling his four children full time.

“(Bart and his children) were always at Maverick’s grabbing lunch,” said Darwin Solis, a manager at the restaurant. “He was always with his kids. It’s just a horrible, horrible accident.”

According to the Chisago County sheriff’s office, the crash occurred about 6 p.m. at Olinda Trail and County Road 83 near Lindstrom when a 2002 Ford minivan crossed into the opposite lane and crashed into the 2000 Toyota minivan Hazlett was driving.

The driver of the vehicle that collided with Hazlett’s was Eileen Patricia O’Hara, 68, of Marine on St. Croix. O’Hara was taken by helicopter to Regions and was listed in serious condition Saturday.

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